The high court is scheduled to rule on a lawsuit challenging a key portion of the Affordable Care Act: tax credits provided by the federal government that make it possible for consumers to afford healthcare coverage obtained through Georgia’s health insurance exchange.

If the high court rules against the government, then the tax credits that help pay the premiums for Obamacare coverage will be terminated.

In my last column we began examining Thomas Paine’s argument against the monarchy. Paine’s masterful use of 1 Samuel was very persuasive, but he wasn’t finished. He next attacked hereditary succession.

Paine says that hereditary succession is an “insult and an imposition on posterity.”

Paine’s priority in this section is to show that hereditary succession unjustly leaves future generations vulnerable to oppression by taking away their ability to choose their government and leaders.

There are simply certain people and certain situations that deserve anger.

First of all, those of you who don’t vote. If you chose not to, please don’t complain about our government. You had your chance. Not voting shows me that you do not care and, therefore, have no right to voice your anger.

The Board of Regents, which makes decisions on how the university system is operated, voted on April 14 to raise tuition at Georgia’s public colleges by as much as 9 percent.

It was not an unusual event: The regents have raised tuition every year for more than two decades. A recent study showed that Georgia had raised college tuition rates more than any other state except New Mexico over the preceding five years.

As newly elected Joey Brush prepared to represent his Columbia County constituents in Atlanta for the first time, I was privileged to interview him for the November 7, 1990, issue of the Columbia County News-Times. In sympathy to the Brush family upon their loss, and with fond memories, the following is an excerpt from that article: